Re: How to disable beacon filtering in iwlwifi in 3.13 and 3.14

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On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:41:56PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 01:40:34PM +0300, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I need to disable a feature on 3.13 and 3.14. But I don't have any
> > patch upstream that I can point to as the patch that needs to be
> > backported.
> > We have a feature that is buggy in 3.13 and 3.14. We refactored (and
> > fixed) this feature in 3.15 but the refactor is really not stable
> > material, so basically, I can't backport the fix to 3.13 / 3.14. A
> > user reported that disabling the feature solved (part of) his issues:
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72601.
> > OTOH, I don't have any patch in linux.git that could be backported to
> > do what I want in 3.13 / 3.14 - i.e. disable the feature.
> > What is the right process here? I understand that this isn't covered
> > by the "stable rules". So what should I do here?
> 
> Get the maintainer's approval to apply this patch and I can queue it up.

Seems ok to me.

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